Countries
European Union, Lithuania
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Lithuania
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Poland
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Latvian
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3236
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2028
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Sveiki
kedụ
Thank You
Ačiū
dalụ
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Labanakt
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Labas rytas
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Prašom
Biko
Sorry
atsiprašau
Ndo
Bye
Ate
Kachifo
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Enuani
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
500,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Curonian
Not present
Where They Speak
Lithuania
-
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
3.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.07 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
3.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
lietuvių kalba
igbo
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Ibo
French Name
lituanien
igbo
German Name
Litauisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Lithuanians
Igbo people
Origin
c. 1503
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
Baltic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Igbo
Language Position
4457
1
120
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Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
lt
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
lit
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
lit
ibo
ISO 639 3
lit
ibo
ISO 639 6
lit
ibo
Glottocode
lith1251
nucl1417
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative